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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350413#Comment_350413Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:09:31 -0500Horrible Warning Si
REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each challenge.

THE RULES:

This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits or crappy scribbles padded-out with words will cause a deployment of the Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account.

No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. Original photography is fine.

No more than ONE submission by any one person.

INSTRUCTIONS:

A Boy? Wonder…

Sidekicks are bizarre. I tend to think – for most of us – a chop-socky fetishist whose violence is cheerfully abetted by a pubescent orphan in bright clothes would engender cries of Reckless Endangerment and Mental Abuse. And that’s before you even get to the pedo-jokes, which have sustained spandex wags for decades. So in order to make a sidekick character plausible, spandex writers must either compose some truly Olympian logic-premises on which the whole dubious partnership rests, or throw their hands in the air and put their trust in the readers’ suspension-of-disbelief.

For the purposes of this challenge that latter option is Forbidden. Right now you – yes! you! – are a nocturnal Knight of Right, quite possibly with pointy ears and a cowl, whose most recent sidekick just popped his clogs. Frankly you’re starting to wonder if this whole policy of sending a traumatised infant dressed as a sexy acid-trip into deadly bullet-riddled situations – funny though it is – is the best way to prosecute your war on crime.

You want to maximise your sidekick potential, right? You’re basically stuck with the code-name (you know the one – the “R” word) because: tradition. And trademarks. And merchandising deals. But who or what do you choose to apply it to, to accompany you on your sinister sojourns? How do they help you get the maximum crime-fighting bang for your chiropteric buck? And how do you arm and attire him/her/it?

This one was inspired by my weekend spiritual retreat. What if B***** had a spiritual guide for a sidekick? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350535#Comment_350535Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:50:47 -0500Michael Nimmo

"Looking for a sidekick, he searches the asylums. Searching for one who will not be haunted by those who died came before!"

A haunting style - whoever takes the mantle of the sidekick is haunted by those who came before - this can be played for laughs or....not! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350543#Comment_350543Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:44:36 -0500dnewlingREMAKE/REMODEL: A BOY? WONDER... (closes April 7th)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350553#Comment_350553
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350553#Comment_350553Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:03:05 -0500Michael NimmoAgreed. Now imagine them constantly looking over your shoulder.

It's hard to strike fear into the hearts of evil and whatnot when you assume the mantle of a small, generally harmless bird that also occasionally gets shit-faced, falling down drunk on berries that ferment on their bush.

So let's just say our mentor in question grooms the meanest drunk he can find into a top-shelf-fueled feather-daddy with a penchant for weaponizing curbs in the name of justice and goodness.

Obviously the butler is the real victim here. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350604#Comment_350604Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:41:15 -0500dorkmuffinREMAKE/REMODEL: A BOY? WONDER... (closes April 7th)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350610#Comment_350610
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350610#Comment_350610Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:17:35 -0500WoodREMAKE/REMODEL: A BOY? WONDER... (closes April 7th)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350669#Comment_350669
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350669#Comment_350669Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:59:07 -0500Jason A. Quest
Batman-on-Robin cosplay, I'm all perved out on the subject of avian-themed sidekicks of airborne-mammal-themed crimefighters. So I took a kinda for-reals approach, imagining Si's instructions coming out of the mouth of Geoff Johns (back in Michigan for Easter with the family, but hiding out and getting drunk in a Lansing bar), and inviting me to pitch a new version of the concept for Earth-53.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350670#Comment_350670Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:58:11 -0500Berserker
probably running the 'avian' theme way into the dirt, and a call out to the most favored foot gear of the ninja why not?

Why would someone who dresses in black, operating at night using stealth and shadows put their young ward in a bright outfit that even the most asinine of henchmen could hardy fail to notice? The sad truth is that this sidekick is nothing more than a a humble sacrifice, sent to soak up bullets and divert attention from the man in black. This brightly adorned Boy Wonder is utilized in the same way that coal miners would once use cadged canaries to warn of impending doom. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350773#Comment_350773Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:18:13 -0500sseloske ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=350809#Comment_350809Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:39:41 -0500Paul Sizer
Or maybe just because I am overcompensating for Mr Sizer's missing bulge here.

My original idea was to have batman ride on the back of robin, maybe with a fist pump like that kid from the Neverending Story, but this one looks better ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=351183#Comment_351183Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:18:07 -0500Paul Sizer
Sizer, everything you do is quality :)Eh, thanks, but I really just dressed up an old idea, didn't really re-imagine it as much as I had hoped. Others in the thread took things much further. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=351195#Comment_351195Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:59:38 -0500256Come to think of it, has there ever been a modular comic book character? If not, there should be. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11023&Focus=351199#Comment_351199Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:16:05 -0500Horrible Warning SiI just moved house so don't have reliable net access, so it might be a week or so before the next one appears. Appear it shall. ]]>